CONFEDERATE PENSION APPLICATION
					  Name of Applicant
					    T. W. Dunnam

				 Houston County Post Office - Grapeland
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				      Comptroller’s File No. 9485
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	I have carefully examined the within application for pension, together with the proof in 
	Support thereof, and I recommend that the application be Approved this 16 day of February
	A. D. 1903
	E. A. Bolmes
	Pension Clerk
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	I herby Approve the within application for pension, this 16 day of February, A.D. 1903
	R. M. Love, Comptroller
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	To the Honorable County Judge of Houston County, Texas.  Your Petitioner, T. W. Dunnam, 
	respectfully represents that he is a resident citizen of Houston County, in the State of 
	Texas, and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the 
	act passed by the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, and approved May 12, A. D. 
	1899, the same being an act entitled “An act to carry into effect the amendment to the 
	Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that aid may be granted to disabled and 
	dependent Confederate soldiers, sailors, and their widows under certain conditions, and to 
	make an appropriation therefor,” and I do solemnly swear that the answers I have given to 
	the following questions are true.
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	Q.  What is your name?  
	Answer: T. W. Dunnam
	Q. What is your age?  
	Answer: 66 years old
	Q. In what County do you reside? 
	Answer: Houston
	Q. How long have you resided in said County and what is your post office address?  
	Answer: 25 years Percilla, Texas
	Q. Have you applied for a pension under the Confederate Pension Law heretofore, and been 
	rejected?  If so state when and where>  
	Answer: No
	Q. What is your occupation if able to engage in one? 
	Answer: Farmer
	Q.  What is your physical condition?  
	Answer: Bad
	Q. If your physical condition is such that you are unable by your own labor to earn a 
	support, state what caused such disability.  
	Answer: Rheumatism
	Q. State in what company and regiment you enlisted in the Confederate army, and the time 
	of your service.
	Answer: 2nd Ala Cavalry Regt 3 years, Company E
	Q. If you served in the Confederate navy state when and where, and the time of your service. 
	Answer:
	Q. State whether or not you have received any pension or veteran donation land certificate 
	under any previous law, and if you answer in the affirmative state what pension or veteran 
	donation land certificate you have received.  
	Answer: none
	Q.  What real and personal property do you now own, and what is the present value of such 
	property? Give list of such property and value.  
	Answer: None
	Q.  What property, and what was the value thereof have you sold or conveyed within two years 
	prior to the date of this application?  
	Answer: none
	Q. What income, if any, do you receive? 
	Answer: none
	Q. Are you in indigent circumstances; that is, are you in actual want, and destitute of 
	property and means of subsistence?  
	Answer: I am
	Q. Are you unable by your labor to earn a support? 
	Answer: yes
	Q. Have you transferred to others any property of value of any kind for the purpose of 
	becoming a beneficiary under this law? 
	Answer: no
	Q. Did you ever desert the Confederacy? 
	Answer: no
	Q. Have you been continuously since the first day of January, 1880, a bona fide resident 
	citizen of this State? 
	Answer: Yes
	Wherefore your petitioner prays that his application for pension be approved and that such 
	other proceedings be had in the premises as are required by law.
					Signature of Applicant: T. M. Dunnam
	Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of Aug A. D. 1902
	E. Winfree
	County Judge Houston County, Texas
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					   AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES

	THE STATE OF TEXAS
	County of Houston
	Before me, E. Winfree County Judge of Houston County, State of Texas, on this day personally 
	appeared  E. F. Dunnam, J. W. Dunnam  who are personally known to me to be credible citizens, 
	who being by me duly sworn on oath, state that they personally know T. W. Dunnam the above
	named applicant for a pension, and that they personally know the said T. W. Dunnam enlisted 
	in the service of the Confederacy, and performed the duties of a soldier (or sailor) as 
	claimed by him in the above and foregoing application, and that they further know that he 
	the said applicant, is unable to support himself by labor of any sort.
		E. F. Dunnam
		J. W. Dunnam
	Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16 day of August A. D. 1902
	E. Winfree, County Judge Houston County, Texas